The Puzzle Platformer Zone

Platformers where movement challenges combine with switches, physics, logic, or timing.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Scarlet Deer Inn - An embroidered dark medieval folk tale. While life in a seemingly ordinary village is all about simple chores and idle gossip, sinister secrets hide below.
Deer & Boy - A runaway boy meets a lost fawn, and together they cross a quiet, dangerous world. Solve puzzles, climb, and slip past threats as your companion grows from a fragile newborn into a powerful deer. What you cannot do alone, you learn to do together.
Frog Sqwad 🐸 - 🐸Up to 8 player co-op extraction puzzle-platformer where you swing, jump, catapult your friends, and eat eat EAT until you grow into a humongous Megafrog. Squad up with your frog friends and storm the Sewers for the glory of the Swamp King!🐸
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Jun 11, 2026
78% 👍
of 407
EMUUROM - A creature-scanning metroidvania. Explore an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the EMUUROM creatures, document your findings in the EMUUDEX, and use what you learn to unlock new paths.
Creepy Tale: Snow Child - An explosive mix of action and mystery, seasoned with black humor and a sinister atmosphere. Journey into Hell alongside a brave boy named Blizzy and defeat Evil itself. Save the world and become a hero. But at what cost?
Farever - Forge your legend in a forgotten realm! Farever is an online multiplayer action RPG set in a vast fantasy open world. Alone or with friends, embark on an epic journey together! Explore wild lands and dangerous dungeons, craft powerful gear, and carve your path through dynamic combat and platforming.
Ultimate Drummer - Ultimate Drummer is an action-platformer where you play as a lone drummer on a sacred quest to restore harmony to a fractured world. Use a fully playable step-sequencer drum kit to reshape reality, awaken lost musicians, and bring music back to life.
RUBATO - RUBATO, an experimental, 2D physics-based take on the collect-a-thon genre!
Poke ALL Toads - A puzzle game starring mischievous fairies. Complete levels by working as a team, operating dangerous machinery and manipulating local wildlife.
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Mar 20, 2026
100% 👍
of 448

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The Way - Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.
Yoku's Island Express - Meet Yoku, the pint-sized postman protagonist of Yoku's Island Express! Use a unique blend of pinball mechanics, platforming and open world exploration to unlock the secrets of Mokumana Island, help the locals, awaken ancient deities and much more in this amazing new tropical adventure!
Alwa's Legacy - Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY- - As long as I have dreams in my heart, I can never escape. I can never awaken from my dreams. Maybe if I follow the dream just past this doorway, then someday I can wake up again...
PLANET ALPHA - PLANET ALPHA, a beautiful alien world filled with mystery and danger. Pursued by relentless enemies, you must harness the power of night and day as you struggle to survive.
Hob - Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.
ibb & obb - ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.
Catherine Classic - Catherine: a tale of love, betrayal, and the terror of commitment. Experience the mature action-adventure-puzzle game unlike any other from the makers of the Persona series, now enhanced for PC in all its Classic glory. Is love over? Climb to the top or die trying.
Braid, Anniversary Edition - Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.
Ugly - Unravel the dark secrets hidden throughout this stirring puzzle platformer about a tormented nobleman confronting the traumas of his past. Use an innovative mirror mechanic to solve challenging puzzle rooms and defeat towering bosses as you strive to piece together the ugly truth.
Monument Valley 2 - Discover illusionary pathways and delightful puzzles as you learn the secrets of The Sacred Geometry. Follow the heart warming story of Ro in her journey through motherhood. Rediscover independence through manipulating monuments and evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.
Monument Valley - Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

MotionRec - MotionRec is a recording puzzle action game where you progress through stages by recording and playing back your own movements.
Little Adventurer Treasure Hunt - "Little Adventurer Treasure Hunt" is a game focused on object-finding. The main storyline revolves around helping alien friends who have been forced to land on Earth due to an "accident", assisting them in searching for scattered items, parts, and their lost crew members across various locations.
Moss II VR - Quill is back—and she’s being hunted. To stand a chance, Quill will need a true partner by her side—and we hope that partner is you. Moss: Book II is an action-adventure puzzle game and award-winning sequel (The Game Awards "Best VR/AR Game") to Moss.
Fruit Mountain - Fruit Stacking Puzzle Game Connect the same types of fruit together to make them grow bigger and bigger! Stack them up without letting them overflow from the plate, and build your own Fruit Mountain!
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Mar 17, 2024
99% 👍
of 563
Desvelado - Turn off the lights, dodge the ghosts and go to sleep as soon as you can in this hand-crafted 2d platform experience! In this vampiric precision platformer you will overcome challenging puzzles and deadly enemies before going to sleep in your cosy coffin. 
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Aug 14, 2024
99% 👍
of 382
Chromatic Conundrum - Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.
Juufuutei Raden™'s Guide for Pixel Museum - Solve the puzzle and complete the art! "Pixel Puzzle" that lets you experience art and culture with Juufuutei Raden.
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Jun 4, 2025
99% 👍
of 345
Stardust Skate - Skate through Stardust Valley in this endless runner, competing for the highest score and the coolest deck!
Larcin Lazer - In this puzzle game combining action and stealth, your memory will be your best tool! Remember the location of the lasers, they disappear as soon as you move. Avoid deadly lasers with style, steal from the richest and save your cat 🐱 Prepare for a MEMORABLE heist
OxU - Minimalistic 3d puzzle with portals, cubes and lasers.
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Sep 22, 2022
99% 👍
of 242
Super Puzzled Cat - Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Portal 2 - The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Portal - Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Öoo - A Bomb Caterpillar's Big Adventure! "Öoo" is a charming yet mysterious exploration puzzle platformer where you discover creative ways to use bombs!
The Upturned - A frantic adventure. Welcome to the Upturned Inn: a grand hotel for the dead! You just want to find your room.
Moonleap - Explore a world full of mysteries that transform with each jump! Moonleap is a game about a moon boy on his journey to recover shooting stars. Change day to night with your jump and catch all the stars in this challenging puzzle-platformer!
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Apr 11, 2023
99% 👍
of 1.5k
Webbed - Swing through the trees, spin sticky webs, and make friends with bugs! Be the adorable spider you've always wanted to be.
Gravitas - Gravitas is a short first-person puzzle platforming game that transports you to the Gallery of Refined Gravity. Manipulate gravity and the gallery itself to prove yourself a pupil worthy of the Curator’s masterwork.
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Aug 23, 2019
98% 👍
of 7.1k
Tinykin - Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their unique powers to bring Milo back to his home planet and back to normal size!
CATO: Buttered Cat - Puzzle platformer where you control both the cat and the toast, based on the famous "Buttered Cat Paradox". The game features 200+ levels, 70+ skins, plus boss fights and mini-games!
Perspective - Perspective is an experimental platformer. The player avatar moves in a 2D space that transforms when the player changes perspective in 3D space. The player needs to use this mechanic navigate the 2D avatar to a goal in order to progress from level to level.
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Oct 9, 2019
98% 👍
of 1.4k
INSIDE - Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
Murders on the Yangtze River - "Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.